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Is Immigration Meaner Than Usual Recently?

 
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IMMIGRATION: ESPECIALLY HUFFY THIS YEAR?
No, dude, it's just you.
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Definitely. They came to my house and boiled my rabbit.
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Sort of...but it's seasonal, like monsoons and yellow dust, so why worry?
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I don't care, I wasn't one of the Yeosu Nine, so screw you, Jack.
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Yeah, probably, but there's nothing to be done. Accept them for what they are, or go somewhere else.
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swetepete



Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg

PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:53 am    Post subject: Is Immigration Meaner Than Usual Recently? Reply with quote

Is immigration grumpier than usual this year? I have been hearing all sorts of weird stuff, and experienced some of it first hand as well. Is it really more fickle, inane, inconsistent and club-witted than before, or is it just that I've noticed now because something happen to me personally?
Those last couple posts from parkenglish add weight to the notion that they're really, really losing it...is there something really deeply heavy going on behind that ordinarily taciturn facade? Do you think they might be suicidal, or experiencing a mid-life crisis, or marital stress, or maybe did they all simultaneously quit smoking? Wrestling, perhaps, with a painfully ingrown self-loathing homosexuality, like the Crazy Neighbor in "American Beauty?" Like, "Brokeback Immigration," maybe?
Or maybe they're just underpaid, over-worked, sick of it all, and sick of us...I guess if I was them, I'd probably have a mad hate on for all butter-soft trustafarians, too, and maybe start thinking all foreigners are scum.
What do you think?
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plokiju



Joined: 15 Mar 2005

PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Which immigration office are you talking about?

I was going to the Daegu office on a near weekly basis around the end of the year. They seemed friendly enough and gave me an "oh, you again?" type smile. They couldn't help me really but point to regulations but seemed sympathetic.
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Roch



Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

plokiju wrote:
Which immigration office are you talking about?

I was going to the Daegu office on a near weekly basis around the end of the year. They seemed friendly enough and gave me an "oh, you again?" type smile. They couldn't help me really but point to regulations but seemed sympathetic.


When Rochie lived in the area, he got good treatment from Daegu's immigration office - even after, hold onto yer hats, he told the biggest racist there to knock off the shite or find himself in the New York Times.

Better than some, they still resemble Sicilian bureaucrats.

Fork 'em!
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chachee99



Joined: 20 Oct 2004
Location: Seoul Korea

PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This time of year where many immigration officials experience their 28th day of the month with no pad wearing white jeans.
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